Pretty dead-on article there now!! As far as the overall benefit of their athletic department, Pickens U would give their left testicle to join The SEC right now!!AJC
The ACC finds new friends. The SEC needs no friends
Not so long ago, there were five big conferences. Now there are essentially two. There’s the SEC, and there’s the ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12 grouping, and then there’s everybody else.www.ajc.com
Mark is a UK graduate who previously worked for the Lexington Herald Leader. He is a good sports writer and I don't compliment many sportswriters.
Mark has been telling the greater Atlanta area and anyone else who will listen, for as long as I have been living here that this is the year UGA wins it's next NC.
Maybe I am missing something but this new alliance to me just kinda screams nothing more than "we are friends and we like each other". There is no teeth to it. Hard to see how this moves the revenue needle in their favor. Seems like much ado about nothing.AJC
The ACC finds new friends. The SEC needs no friends
Not so long ago, there were five big conferences. Now there are essentially two. There’s the SEC, and there’s the ACC/Big Ten/Pac-12 grouping, and then there’s everybody else.
Doesn’t move the revenue needle but with a rewriting of the rules in college football it puts them in charge. They can squash the 12 team playoff because they would likely have more votes. They could also say no more than 3 or 4 from 1 conference. That’s really the only power it gives them. Also sets up for a possible merge if things went really nuts but that’s left field type stuff.
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and dog gone it, people like me - Stewart Smalley
Didn’t two out of three commoasioners say in today's announcement that they were in favor of CFP expansion? They should be. It would only benefit them.
I think one of the issues they want to be in the drivers seat on is the rumored expansion of the scholarship limit. They don’t want to see a return to the Bear Bryant days where you signed guys just to keep them from your rivals.
Maybe they did. I think the ACC commish is the only one that didn't say yay or nay. But expansion is coming, in one form or the other.
Good point. Expanding on that, a team could essentially use the loop hole of not giving an official scholarship, and use the NIL deal to offset the expenses of attending the university.
I tried to see it using the Hubble telescope and I still couldn't see us. I did however see other galaxies, so I estimate we are light years away. By the way, by the time we would win the NC, aliens will have a team here to kick our a$$.
It wouldn’t matter if a contract was signed. Espn only controls who televises their games not the inner workings of the Acc or Sec for that matter. They are free to make decisions and run the conference as they see fit and schedule who they want. Espn has no control over that.
I just believe if no legally binding contact was signed it is just irrelevant babble. Big show to try and save face. Just my opinion.
